Plato Foundation: First Month Overview
Adinushk
It’s already been more than a month since the Plato Foundation opened its door. For those of you who missed it, the Plato Foundation is a body designed to boost community driven projects. Information regarding how the foundation works is available here and here.
This looks like a good time to review what happened, to see what went well and what could be improved in the next iterations.
During the first month there were 7 members in the foundation’s council: Clopoyaur, Master_rg, Gnilraps, tommot, Freiheitskaempfer, Gulitiwi and Yui MHCP001 as community representatives and mntn8 and Adinushk from the eRepublik team.
The project was met with an overall positive feedback at launch.
Through the Foundation, we came across interesting projects within the Community. A total of 10 projects were submitted and 5 were deemed eligible for grants totalling 2500 Gold.
In the social interactions and entertainment category we should mention the eRepublik Idol project, as well as the International Meme Wars.
The eRepublik Idol contest brought into our attention the musical talent of the community, as well as some good voices - some were already well-known, while others were a pleasant surprise.
Author: Eraclev
Grant: 500 Gold
Perio😛
8 August - 8 September (Day 3549 - 3580)
Outcome: 7 articles, 319 comments, 407 votes [in total]
In case you missed it, you can find all the articles here:
- • [eRepublik Idol] Rules and Registration
- • [eRepublik Idol] Announcement and Introduction the Judge
- • [eRepublik Idol] Elimination 1 - Song is a part of your life - India
- • [eRepublik Idol] Elimination 2 - There Song That's Inside You - Switzerland
- • [eRepublik Idol] Knockout Round - Feel the Music - USA
- • [eRepublik Idol] Music is the strongest form of magic - Netherlands
- • [eRepublik Idol] Final Round - Gnilraps is the Winner!
The International Meme Wars prompted Citizens to bring forward their dankest memes, making fun of the USA and its political Parties, of Yui and Gnilraps and even Plato.
Author: Gnilraps
Grant: 500 Gold
Perio
😛17 August - 12 September (Day 3558 - 3584)
Outcome: 3 articles, 228 comments, 234 votes [in total]
You can find the articles here:
We rewarded active players who put their time and effort into the military module, such as Mentalist de Bucovina, who has taken it upon himself to travel the eWorld and help new Citizens in the meantime. You can find his project Worldwide Donation Project to Young Players here:
Author: Mentalist de Bucovina
Grant: 1000 Gold [to be added]
Perio
😛17 August - ongoing (Day 3558 - present)
Outcome: 1 article, 11 comments, 30 votes
[Plato Foundation Proposal] Worldwide Donation Project to Young Players
The Foundation also sponsored a project which supports local media activity. The Cultural Exchange Program prompts eArgentinian journalists to share their articles by publishing them in eCountries outside the American Continent.
Author: gustavo35
Sponsorship: 500 Gold
Perio
😛17 August - ongoing (Day 3558 - present)
Outcome: 1 article, 42 comments, 73 votes
[Plato Foundation Proposal] Cultural exchange Program
Here are just a few of the articles which participated in the Cultural Exchange Program so far:
You can find the rest of the articles here.
Another Citizen whose efforts have been rewarded with a sponsorship was Icurlybear. He is the creator of Socrates, a smart and useful bot which can be added to the community’s Discord channels.
Author: Icurlybear
Sponsorship: 500 Gold
Perio
😛9 August
Outcome: 1 article, 36 comments, 91 votes
Socrates
What the board members have to say about the Plato Foundation:
Clopoyaur:
I welcome this initiative from the start. Even if this should of have been made long time ago, it is very good that right now is in place and is working. It was really nice to see amazing things coming from the community as usual, but this time Plato decided to support the ideas and reward the one that put efforts into it. This can be the beginning of many interesting projects that maybe have not been initiated due to lack of material support. I think the more we will advance with this idea, more projects will become eligible for grants and sponsorships. Overall, I think Plato Foundation is a great idea with a big potential. Looking forward to see how is gonna develop in the next months. It was an honor for me to be part of the first board of Plato Foundation and that I was entitled with so much trust. It was sometimes difficult to judge as all the projects deserved some funding in a way or another, but I think I made the correct decisions based on my media and eRepublik experience. I think this is quite a big responsibility and respectable and proven members of the community should be part of it, after all is The Foundation. My recommandation: ClopoCrew. You can always rely on people like MaineCoon, Mithrantir, Morten628 or Hitti-Litti (but the list should be way longer). |
Freiheitskaempfer:
In my opinion the Plato Foundation is just one step into the right direction when it comes to supporting the active players. The community has been left out by Plato for too long which led lots of players to leave the game. However lots of the submitted projects were not exactly what we were looking for. This initiative was meant to support the community, not to request game-changes or to submit suggestions. For sure there’s a lot more which needs to be done by the administration of eRepublik and I still hope that someday communication between players and administration will be brought to a higher level. I enjoyed being part of the first board of the Plato Foundation and wish my successors best of luck. |
Gnilraps:
Plato Foundation was an opportunity for me to get better engaged with the international eRepublik community. It connected me with people and events around the New World that I otherwise would not have encountered. It also highlighted those same people and events to many others in my community who also would otherwise be less internationally engaged. It seems clear to me that something like this HAD to be done. Admin simply must find new ways to build bridges between the social structures of the gaming community and themselves. The Foundation is a great start. |
Gulitiwi:
eRepublik is almost a decade old social-game, players became old, new did players not always manage to get involved with the community and the Plato Foundation came to spark up what we always ha 😛the great activity of the community. Plato Foundation is basically encouraging the community to create content for the community with a bit of extra support, and the social interaction is what fascinated most of us when we first registered on eRepublik. By the little time I spent with the Foundation, I have seen many really cool projects, and even the ones that were unable to fulfil the requirements were pretty good. I had a great time working with the Plato Foundation and I’m looking forward to seeing how the project is going to evolve and how the community is going to address it in the months to come. We love the game and can only wish the best to whoever is in charge next! |
Master_rg:
Well, some of you may have read Yui’s article where you are able to see my point of view regarding the Plato Foundation - in case you didn’t, you may want to take a look. The idea behind the Plato Foundation is great and it’s definitely a step in the right direction: The community gets the power to deal with (at least some) decisions with the help of their representatives. Nevertheless, and I love to repeat myself: In the current state it won’t be a help for too long. After one month as a member of the first Plato Foundation I can indeed say it was an honor to serve in this group of high profile players, but on the other hand I also have to say that we were already facing several problems that show its limitations - and everyone within the Plato Foundation knew it: The players and, of course, the team. Therefore I can’t really understand why there isn’t any self-criticism from the eRepublik officials, pointing out those problems and giving ideas and feedback how they plan to solve it. The overall question is: What kind of projects can be created by the community. As you’ve read it in this article already, there are really beautiful ones. Nevertheless: What other kinds of projects were possible? I’m looking forward to see new ideas but we’ve reached some kind of limitation already which is also represented in the amount of new proposals for the Plato Foundation. After more or less 2 weeks there wasn’t really anything new, no new proposals or “just” the same idea repeating over and over again. I am asking you: Does eRepublik Labs need the Plato Foundation to tell them, that they should support community driven projects? Do they need the Plato Foundation to have discussions about “Let’s write articles” proposals? I really have to commend the Community Officers from eRepublik Labs as they were really into it and knew about new proposals and ideas even before parts of the Plato Foundation had the time to read through all those new articles - and it’s awesome because you see that some people at eRepublik Labs really care about the community. It was beautiful to see the interaction in the whole group.. it was one of those “yeah give me more of that ♥”-moments ... but then again I ask myself: The Community Officers know what’s going on most of the time, they know what’s exciting, they know what’s a good or a bad idea - why do they need the Plato Foundation? I really hope the idea behind the Plato Foundation evolves in the next months, with more influence of its members, a deeper connection to the team and maybe also the developers behind eRepublik. It’s up to our successors to increase the influence of our Community and I wish them the best of luck for this job (and, of course, a lot of awesome projects to discuss about). To bring my article to an end I would like to thank the community for their great ideas, eRepublik for starting the first “trial” of the Plato Foundation and the Community Officers for their awesome job. Thank you. I enjoyed my job, but fingers crossed we haven’t reached the end yet. - Sebastian / Master_rg |
These are our thoughts at the end of the first month. What did you think? What did you like and what would you change?
Last but not least, we would like to thank you all for the participation and all your help in finding and rewarding the best projects. Your opinions and cooperation are very valuable to us.
To commemorate the Board members' participation, different badges will be added to their profile, differentiating between active and former participants.
As the first term ends, we are looking for new Citizens to join the Plato Foundation Board. Who do you think would be up for the task?
Let us know in the comments.
Comments
Mentalist de Bucovina deserves a link to his profile. Other than that, great job everyone and great efforts for keeping this game alive and why not make it fun i the same time.
Time is not on my side these days but I encourage players that do have time to get engaged as there is a lot to learn and many things to do around here.
Cheers!
Updated. Thanks! 😶
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Was quite a great idea, although there were not enough participants. Lazy people like me need to design some projects and baby booms if we want to boost erep with Plato Foundation.
So, the question is... how can I write an article which have pictures and texts are in the same line 🙂
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Long story short - with columns. I replied on Slack. 🙂
It's really hard. Use the [.column] [/.column] commands. Best an image link as one of the columns. Yell at the newspaper module about image size, what space etc. Then learn some Romanian swear words, and finally post it.
bb code is useful for forums, but for articles it sucks... true 🙁
Thank you all for the great work you've done o7
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>Even if this should of have been made long time ago
*should have been
'...the foundation’s council: Clopoyaur, Master_rg, Gnilraps, tommot, Freiheitskaempfer, Gulitiwi and Yui MHCP001'
Those listed above should have been totally ineligible to win anything.
did we win something?
Our hearts :3
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Rainy Sunday
Melissa Rose
Franklin Stone
Dinnyin
needs more greeling
Thedillpickl
WhydoIbothertoo
Iamnameless
Waruda
Feynmann
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Captain Black Sheep
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in no particular order.
I'll stick with my list
Did you see the amount of active player?
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Good job
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Good article and really good point by Master_rg about it's limitation, which I fully agree with.
Awesome \o/
Nice article
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Happy to see open (& productive) criticisms in the ITW's : )
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Eraclev is Swiss ! ! !
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This was a good idea , a step into right direction as people said , letting people know and the team at least cares about wtf we are doing here 😃
But , we dont find the cure as long as we dont understand the disease , making foundations and things like that may increase the hurt pulse of the game a little , but i for one didnt see any of articles you put here , before you put them here. cause i never saw anything interesting that i check shoutbox to read feeds about it.
The main problem that i cant think of a way to solve really 😃 , is that this game is 10 years old. people who signed up here when they were 17 18 years old , are not 27 28 years old. so beside not having time for game , their idea of playing kinda changed from "lets destroy that its fun" , "lets all attack that and see how it works" to the grown up ideas like "we should stand our grand till we have complete advantage" , "mission is good but its not profitable , so dang it " which are bad for game business and bring game to its current atmosphere.
what can really revive the game is injecting new players to the game and give them options to make a difference. now imagine you are a new player who joined the game , you come to join politics , you see them dead , most countries has 1 candidate for cp each term and no activity in congress
you go to a ground battle , you see serbian legenda with legend 20 pushing , will close the battle worried that he may come eat you.
you find an airbattle , a spark of hope comes to your eyes , " they are not that strong there!! i may be able to do something" then you see you should sit and watch daddies fight , till it gets your chance to fight , and when you do , without having Blitzreik pack , you dont have that much health to make a difference , even old players cant make a different in battle without BP , new players aside
as long as this problem stands and game refuses to amuse new players , these solutions are just temporary like a painkiller
Yes, you are right, we figured out that the lack of visibility in-game was an issue. The Forum is great, but spreading the word through shouts adds engagement from players who don't usually check the posts over there.
Indeed, bringing new players would help, which is why we've tried adding updates that would make the New World a more welcoming place for newbies, a project which is still ongoing.
Wow, that is that Adinushk with Batman logo on her shirt?
BRIOSEEEE! ❤
Chiar ea 😃
Just keep it up and keep working the way you're working lately, we might see the old erepublik again!
-make the new changes more influentive by doing something with moving tickets
-make new players have something to fight for, make them availible to contribute the country in some way, don't let them into thinking they could never catch up the older players
-keep being so nice in tickets, kasper I'm talking to you whoever you are
In general, you'll always get the support by players if you do the good things.
Thanks for your kind words! 🙂
FHK is the shit...
I tryed to make a project that will raise activity in my country but i didnt get a response (because there is no one active 😛) so i gave up.
Community failed itself x ∞
Sorry to hear. Let me know if there is anything I can help with. 😁
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lol what a clown fiesta
500g for 250 votes? LMAO
Yep, it's pretty easy. I'm looking forward to seeing a project from you as well. 🙂
the great work
Thanks! 😁
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Little to late :/
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IM FAMOUS IM IN THE SCREENSHOT OMG
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